The Performance Monomers business of The Dow Chemical Co. (DOW) announced a 10-percent increase in capacity for the production of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) at its Freeport, TX, facility.
AkzoNobel Performance Additives has appointed Archway Sales Inc. as its distributor for the Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico markets effective September 1, 2011.
BYK-Gardner, worldwide partner of the automotive, paint and plastic industries for quality control of color, appearance and physical properties, has increased its staff by nine.
OMNOVA Solutions announced its 2010 Technology Award recipients. This annual award program recognizes exemplary technological contributions by associates in OMNOVA's research and development, sales and marketing, technical service, operations, product management, LEAN SixSigma, and strategic sourcing organizations.
A delicate balance of atomic forces can be exploited to make nanoparticle superclusters that are uniform in size, an attribute that's important for many nanotech applications but hard to accomplish, University of Michigan researchers say.
Potential users, including coating manufacturers, architects, engineers and facility owners, are encouraged to participate in the development of a proposed new ASTM International standard, ASTM WK 34014, Practice for Determining the Dry Fall (Fog) Properties of Protective Coatings.
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